V. I. Lenin

Wireless Message Addressed To All

Written:22 January, 1918First Published:1929Lenin
      Miscellany XISource:Lenin’sCollected
      Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972,
      pp. 511Translated:Yuri Sdobnikov and George
      Hanna, Edited by George HannaTranscription & HTML Markup:Charles
      Farrell and David WaltersOnline Version:Lenin Internet ArchiveDecember,
      2000

Calling Everybody

Anumber of newspapers
      abroad have published false reports of horrors and chaos in
      Petrograd, etc.

All these reports are absolutely untrue. There is complete calm
      in Petrograd and Moscow. No socialists have been arrested. Kiev
      is in the hands of the Ukrainian Soviet authorities. The Kiev
      bourgeois Rada has fallen and dispersed. The authority of the
      Ukrainian Soviet in Kharkov has been fully recognised. On the
      Don, 46 Cossack regiments have revolted against
      Kaledin. Orenburg has been taken by the Soviet authorities and
      the Cossack ataman, Dutov, has been routed and is in flight. In
      Finland, the victory of the Finnish workers' government is being
      rapidly consolidated, the counter-revolutionary whiteguard
      troops have been pushed back to the North, and the workers'
      victory over them is certain.

There has been an improvement in the food situation in
      Petrograd. Today, January 22, 1918, old style, Petrograd workers
      are sending 10 carloads of food to aid the Finns.

Information about Germany is very scarce. The Germans are
      clearly concealing the truth about the revolutionary movement in
      Germany. Trotsky has telegraphed to Petrograd from Brest-Litovsk
      that the Germans are dragging out the talks. The German
      bourgeois press, obviously given its cue, is spreading false
      reports about Russia to intimidate the public.

A decree on the complete separation of church and state and the
      confiscation of all church property was published yesterday,
      January 21, 1918.